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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, 


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MARTIN RYERSON. 



NEW YORK: 

THE AUTHORS' PUBLISHING COMPANY. 
1880. 



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Copyright, 1880. 

By The Authors’ Publishing Company, New York* 


ALL rights reserved, 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

Origin of the Principle of Life. 5 

Origin of Life Itself. 13 

The Laws and Rights of Life. 17 

The Government of Humanity. 21 

Natural Individual Rights. 27 

Restoring Rights to the People. 38 

Money and Politics.40 

Finance and Commerce. 43 

Paper Money. 53 

Individual and Party Rights. 57 

What Caused Prosperity, and What Brought Ruin... 58 













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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


Origin of the Principle of Life. 

In the New York Tribune of January 2ist, 1876 
is an article headed, “ Sectarian Candidates.” In 

speaking of Mr.-, as being qualified for the 

nomination as a candidate for the Presidency of the 

United States, after giving testimony of Mr.-’s 

descent on his father’s side through the Presby¬ 
terian faith, it suggested there may be a doubt on 
account of his mother coming from a noted Ro¬ 
man Catholic family. 

This reasoning leads one to ask the question— 
Through whom does the germ of man descend ? 
The male, or female ? What has that to do with 
politics, you may ask ? I answer ;—because it un¬ 
derlies the foundation of man’s rights, as an indi¬ 
vidual. Solve our first question, and the relation 
it bears to all external objects for its development, 
you will then see and comprehend man’s Political, 
Religious and Individual rights. 

Is the public mind ripe for the discussion of the 
momentous question? I think it is. Heretofore 




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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


the discussions have been of a narrow, sectarian 
or selfish nature, limiting man’s rights by creeds 
and arbitrary laws, enforced by brute power, di¬ 
rected by intellect uneducated or not unfolded in 
wisdom. 

The discussion of how man’s soul becomes in¬ 
carnated in the flesh, must be a scientific one. 

In order to get a correct view of man (I use 
the word man, in its twofold sense, man and wo¬ 
man) we must go back to first principles. 

The first question occurring to the deeply re¬ 
flecting mind is, what has caused the phenomena 
I witness all about me and within me? The usual 
answer has been God, which has not satisfied the 
inquiring mind. 

One inquires, who, where, and what is God ? 
and what is my relation to Him? From time im¬ 
memorial there have been minds making such in¬ 
quiries and seeking their answers. Through these 
efforts and labors, which have been recorded and 
given to the world, we can now give a much more 
satisfactory answer to the questions propounded. 

What was the first manifestation of Life or 
God ? I have no objection to the word God, to 
convey the meaning of the all Pervading Creative 
Principle, that acts through all extent, and is no¬ 
where absent. The self-evident answer is, Motion. 
What did he and she or this principle move ? 

The principle being male and female put itself 


ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. 


7 


in motion upon chaos, (Darkness), out of which all 
forms are evolved, and through these forms, all re¬ 
sults proceed—from the fiery comet to the most ex¬ 
alted sun and planetary systems in the universe, 
from the protoplasm to the most exalted archangel 
in heaven. 

From the simplest mote, to the grandest organ¬ 
izations of worlds, this principle is found at work, 
preparing the elements through which God can or¬ 
ganize a form in His own image, a conscious living 
soul—a child from Himself. If this is so man must 
be Immortal. 

Now what evidence have we to sustain this 
view of God, or Brahma, or Ala, or Omi-to, or 
Amida, or the Mighty Word,—or call this prin¬ 
ciple by any name you choose? Reason is One. 
It is the same Creative Principle. In science, this 
principle is known by different names. 

Scientific investigators tell us, that there is not 
the smallest particle of matter but that has its posi¬ 
tive and negative sides, which acts as its attractive 
and repellent powers, which keeps it in its individ¬ 
ual form. Then again in its higher organization it 
is known as the aggregative and segregating prin¬ 
ciple ; and under this name it is constantly at 
work, and nothing new or old in the universe, 
that appears, but is the result of its labors. Un¬ 
der other names—Heat and Cold—God becomes 
very conspicuous and all-powerful. 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


From the combined labors of these three mani¬ 
festations of God’s power we have sensitive Life, 
under the name of male and female, and under this 
manifestation of God, man is evolved a conscious 
Sentient Soul, in the Creator’s own Image : which 
is Love, Wisdom, and Sensation. Under this name 
we give God our highest and holiest adoration only 
by observing his laws in nature, as manifested in the 
operation of this all creative principle, under its 
various names, and morally applying them to our 
every day life; thereby making it manifest what 
God is, by unfolding in Love and Wisdom ; and 
through its manifestation, the kingdom of heaven 
may be established upon earth. 

These first or general principles being true, what 
is our manifest duty, to ourselves, our neighbors, 
the government, and the all Loving Wise Father 
and Mother, God. 

Life implies labor ; labor gives experience ; ex¬ 
perience begets or develops Love and Wisdom, and 
when we possess them in perfection, we have be¬ 
come as the gods, or like unto God. 

What was the second manifestation of God ? 
First was motion. Evidently, it was organization. 

What was the object of organization ? It was 
threefold. First, sensation. Second, the refine¬ 
ment of matter. Third, the manifestation of Love 
and Wisdom, in a finite form. 

I think all scientific and reflecting minds con- 


ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. 


9 


cede that the first manifestation of Life or God was 
motion, and that the second was organization. Ad¬ 
mitting then that these answers are correct, in what 
way or order and manner has organization pro¬ 
ceeded, in order to develop conscious sentient 
beings ? 

The Infinite Principle put itself in motion, broke 
infinitude in particles; these particles, each of ne¬ 
cessity containing its portion of the Infinite Prin¬ 
ciple, commenced to revolve around or about each 
other, manifesting the positive and negative prin¬ 
ciple, developing the centripetal and centrifugal 
forces, attraction and repulsion, and they again the 
aggregative and segregative forces. Motion having 
developed heat and cold, formation begins to take 
shape in suns and planets and planetary systems, 
held together by this all permeating and ever pres¬ 
ent Love and Wisdom principle. 

Thus coming down to our owm little footstool, 
the earth, and interrogating and examining her in 
her growth and development as recorded in her 
mountains, oceans, rivers, valleys, fossils, vegetable 
and animal life, we may be able to see what posi¬ 
tion man stands in, in relation to nature and na¬ 
ture’s God, and toward his fellow-man. 

Matter exists ! Did it create itself? Impossi¬ 
ble. All we can know about it is its forms, com¬ 
binations and manifestations, in and through it. 

Mind and power exist! Did they create them- 


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selves? They are coequal with God. Did matter 
create them ? No ; because they control matter, 
and organize it into forms of life and uses ; so as to 
individualize the God Principle, Love and Wisdom, 
in the form of man. 

Man therefore has the power and mind to in¬ 
quire into all the manifestations of the Father and 
Mother God Principles. These principles and laws 
I wish to be kept steadily and firmly in mind ; for, 
by them all things that are, and are to be, are 
created, or formed. And, in order to sustain this 
position I shall draw from nature about us and 
within us, and from recorded facts, as observed by 
the various scientific minds of all nationalities. 

One of the great difficulties to overcome in a 
treatise on this subject, is the notion that soul or 
mind is but a chemical resultant of matter : whereas 
it is co-eternal with matter, and distinct from earth¬ 
ly matter, and superior to and above it, and uses 
matter to manifest itself. Otherwise you might as 
well say that all organization of matter, is for the 
purpose of creating matter : whereas matter is only 
organized for the purposes of developing uses. Uses 
signify the operation of mind upon matter; and 
all uses are for the purposes of sensation ; and what 
but life can take cognizance of sensation ! And life 
itself is but an evolvement from the all creative Soul 
of the Universe. 

One of the first manifestations of Deity is heat 


ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. 


II 


and cold. By and through them the Universe was 
and is unfolded and unfolding. Each sun and planet 
is expanded and condensed by them. 

In what manner did cold and heat act upon 
chaos ? Take the word chaos to represent unpar- 
ticled matter; and the word creation to mean for¬ 
mation, it will give a rational view and conception 
of the phenomena of nature. In this sense I shall 
use those words. 

Can any mind conceive of one, much less of va¬ 
rious and innumerable kinds of sensations, without 
organization? I answer. No. It is self-evident, 
that to produce sensation, there must be action— 
motion ; and for a variety of sensations, there must 
be a variety of organizations. 

Can there be any sensation without heat or 
cold? I answer. No, not in a gross material body; 
and yet the extreme of either will destroy all sensa¬ 
tion pertaining to life in a material earthly body. 
Extreme heat is known to expand and destroy all 
earthly forms. And cold to condense, consolidate 
and give form. The two harmoniously acting in 
concert, give life and form to all things. Each in 
its turn builds up, and destroys. The extreme 
heat of the noonday sun evaporates the water from 
the face of the earth, and heats the atmosphere 
and loads it with the vapors from the oceans, lakes 
and rivers, and carries it up to old Boreas, or the 
cold region where it is condensed, and returned to 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


the earth in the form of snow, hail, rain and the 
pearly dew-drop; bringing down with them the 
ammonias and life-giving qualities of the atmos¬ 
phere in a soluble form, so they can be absorbed by 
vegetable and animal life-germs, that they may 
build up their earth forms, and through those forms 
reproduce their own life-germs again. Can analyt¬ 
ical chemistry detect life in air, water, or earth ; 
and tell us what it is? 

In order to build up these earth forms, in all the 
beauty of shades and colors, it requires the heat and 
light of the sun, and the cold and darkness of night. 
Light and Darkness are equal. 

All life-germs are conceived in darkness, and 
germinate and continue to grow, alternately in 
darkness and light, until the death of the earthly 
form. 

Darkness is full of forms. Light is the revela- 
tor of forms and their uses. If these statements are 
true, then Light and Darkness must be Eternal. 

So, if a form is revealed by the light, can it be 
so hid that it cannot be again found or seen ? I 
answer. No. They are from eternity, and once re¬ 
vealed they cannot be hidden. Their earthly form 
may pass from view, that is all; for, if light and 
darkness is eternal, so must all forms be eternal. 
For that which comes from eternity, cannot pass 
out of eternity. 


ORIGIN OF LIFE ITSELF. 


13 

Here let me make a statement of these Princi¬ 
ples. Thus: 


ETERNITY. 


GOD. 


I Cold—Darkness = Forms x x Wisdom. 
( Heat—Light = Revelator x x Love. 

, ETERNITY. 

Reginn'U'S , 


GOD. 


Is the above statement true ? If so, what must 
the conclusions be : but that Man was in eternity 
with Godj and his Individuality is now revealed on 
earth as a sentient being; a child of Deity. 


IL 

Origin of Life Itself. 

The chemist, with his alembic and retort, must 
use heat and cold, which are his chief agents in all 
his chemical experiments in reducing materials into 
their primitive elements, and in combining them in 






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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


various compounds and fabrics. They are ever 
present in all of man’s experiences, and he can¬ 
not exist without them, neither can any form of 
matter. 

Yet there is a something in man which we call 
Mind, that can control heat and cold in such a 
manner as to control matter, and form it and re¬ 
form it in thousands of conditions, and cause it to 
do much of man’s labor ; and again can annihilate 
the earthly forms, till there is not a vestige of them 
to be found. As an example, I refer to the explo¬ 
sion of the nitro-glycerine in the brick building 
at the entrance of the tunnel being constructed 
through Bergen Hill by the Del. Lac. & W. R. R. 
Co., which so completely destroyed the bricks that 
not a particle could be found ; yet no scientific man 
would affirm that the matter of which the bricks 
were composed was annihilated and driven out of 
existence. 

Though man can so use heat and cold to de¬ 
stroy the visible appearance of matter, he does not 
and cannot destroy matter. Doubtless if he had a 
perfect knowledge of heat and cold, he could develop 
all forms and conditions out of matter. 

Heat and cold, light and darkness, cannot be 
separated so far as to be independent of each other. 
One could not be manifest without the other. Who 
can tell where one commences, and the other ceases. 
They never separate. Like spirit and matter, soul 


ORIGIN OF LIFE ITSELF. 


15 


and force, love and wisdom, law and principle,= 
Male and Female = God. One cannot be or exist 
without the other. They cannot be made manifest 
without union. And for any manifestation of power 
and intelligence, there must be a duality of action as 
well as a duality of quality to act. To illustrate, in 
mathematics there is an odd and an even number; 
one is odd, it is a whole ; you cannot express any 
mathematical problem with it, but divide it and you 
have the even. With the two, and their multiples, 
you can express any mathematical problem in the 
universe. So with the male and female principle— 
God. It is attraction and repulsion, it is positive 
and negative, it is the centripetal and centrifugal 
force; and in its first and last, and most powerful, 
manifestation, is that which is known in earthly 
matter as heat and cold. 

Cold and positive represents the male principle. 
Heat and negative the female principle. These 
principles must be equal in power to make one 
balanced whole—God. And in all the manifesta¬ 
tions of this power, it exhibits wisdom and love— 
God in His spiritual realm—which interpenetrates 
all material domain and so fills the universe of 
spirit and matter. Thus he has so prepared matter 
that He could and has out of it created Man in his 
own Image—Male and Female created He them.” 

Then why wrangle ye one with another about 
earthly riches and homes. Your homes are not 


16 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 

merely here on earth. God is spirit, your homes 
are with the Father in spirit life. 

God is the centre from which all things unfold. 
Just how that is done, is yet a mystery; but we 
have some facts and principles and knowledge of 
the laws of life and matter, by which we may open 
the mystic doors of justice and liberty, and learn 
much more. Man having been created by God in 
his own image, we must have outrolled from the 
centre of the All of spirit and matter. 

As shown by the various manifestations of the 
laws of nature, man, in his inmost nature, must be 
the product from the inmost power and principle 
that created the universe, and is a particle and 
germ of the Infinite Power. Therefore he has the 
power and principle within him, to unfold in all the 
beauty of the Infinite, through absorption and 
growth in love and wisdom—growth by acquiring 
knowledge and wisely applying it to loving uses ; 
thereby traveling back through all manifestations 
of the loving Father and Mother God, who dwells 
in the inmost of the universe. As we must have 
been in Him through the eternity of the past, we 
have all of eternity to return to Him in the future. 


III. 


The Laws and Rights of Life. 

We have endeavored to indicate the origin of 
man, and from the argument deduce that he will 
return to the source from which he came; not, 
however, as a germ, but in the form of a God-man. 

But there is a period of existence between the 
coming and the going of each individual being, 
which directly and immediately interests us all. 
This is his period of individuality —of ego —where 
he stands alone, apart and free, if ever. And here 
arises the inquiry, what are the natural rights con¬ 
ferred by this period of individuality and freedom ? 

First —To life, and the elements to sustain life— 
air, water, and^ the fruits and products of 
the earth. 

Second —To be educated in the duties of life. 

Third —To liberty and justice, in the pursuit of 
happiness. 

Under these three divisions of man’s rights all 
of his privileges, duties, and obligations to his Cre¬ 
ator, himself, and fellow-men, can be fully discussed. 

Before we consider what the governments of men 
should be, let us glance at the physical growth of 
man—his development into the world, and so pos¬ 
sibly get a more correct view of man’s inalienable 
rights. 


18 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, 

Let US start with infants, one, male, and the 
other, female, and watch their development until 
they grow up to maturity. We find they both are 
fed on the milk drawn from the mother’s breast. 
Here let me call your attention to one important 
fact; that the child must put forth the effort and 
draw the nourishment from the mother’s breast, 
to develop its body ; so also must it put forth effort 
and draw and take in knowledge, to develop the 
mind—with this difference however—the mind will 
not cease to grow until it has taken in all knowl¬ 
edge. 

This process must go on, until their stomachs 
get strong enough to receive the fruits and pro¬ 
ducts of the earth. They continue this process of 
placing food in their stomachs, day by day and year 
after year, until they arrive at the age of puberty. 

What took place with the food that went into 
their stomachs ? Why, it decomposed under me¬ 
chanical and chemical processes, by which the fruits 
and products of earth were converted into bone, 
muscle, blood, nerves, brain, fluids and various tis¬ 
sues, in fact every distinct organ in the human 
body. And each organ has its peculiar functions 
and uses to perform in the grand cosmical body of 
man. Who conducted and presided over that la¬ 
boratory, the stomach, to convert that fruit of the 
earth into brain, eyes, etc., and give every organ a 
specific use, and duty to perform ? Could it be any 


THE LA WS AND RIGHTS OF LIFE. 


19 


other than God, by and through those principles I 
have enunciated ? 

Let us observe the two children,—grown up to 
manhood and womanhood—they unite or blend in 
wedlock, and the result is, the divine principle (male 
and female) has individualized itself, through the 
human form, into a concious self-entity, or soul. 

All men are created, by and through the same 
laws of nature; consequently it is a truths that all 
men are free and equal to life., liberty and justice. 
And if they have that, happiness is the resultant. 

What now are the logical rights of man as con¬ 
stituted by the laws of nature. We have shown 
above, that his life was evolved by and through the 
operation of nature’s laws, and lastly, by partaking 
of the fruits and products of earth ; and, for its 
maintenance in the earthly form, he must continue 
to partake of the fruits and products of the earth. 
Therefore he has a natural right to as much of the 
earth's surface as will supply his wants, and without 
price. When he has as much as he can use, he has 
no right to any more. If he does take any more, 
he is a usurper of that which is not his, and com¬ 
mits a wrong, next to the greatest that man can 
commit against his neighbor; which is to take his 
life. Do the constitution and laws of the United 
States acknowledge and protect each individual cit¬ 
izen in these his inalienable rights? No. Then 
why not at once commence to formulate laws which 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


will afford such acknowledgment and protection ? 
There is no reason why we should delay in com¬ 
mencing to pull down crude organizations, and 
building up a finer, grander, and a nobler form of 
government, capable of sustaining man in harmony 
with his inner life, and his future destiny. 

Are not the life-principles continuously exist¬ 
ent ? Yes, and as eternal as God. 

By what signs do we know this ? By progression 
in nature; growth and decay; construction and de¬ 
struction—you cannot have one without the other. 
That which to-day is a great calamity, to-morrow is 
converted into a greater blessing than the calamity, 
by an increased knowledge. The blessing—the 
growth—could not have come to us, only through 
the calamity. There is no such thing as perma¬ 
nent retrogression in the laws of nature. They 
constantly have a forward, upward and refining pro¬ 
cess in their cycles. Their apparent retrogression 
is not real, but a temporary process in the refine¬ 
ment of material, in order to build up a more glori¬ 
ous and beautiful organization, so as to give purer 
and more refined qualities. 


IV. 


The Government of Humanity. 

Look at humanity to-day, as it is manifested 
in Europe and the United States of America. We 
have no history of any people at any age of the 
world, that possessed so many harmonious instru¬ 
ments for the production of melodious sounds. 

In no nations of people in ages gone by, did the 
people possess the knowledge to use heat to pro¬ 
pel the steam-engine, or electricity to annihilate 
space, and bring us, as it were, face to face in con¬ 
versation with people in different hemispheres. 
And yet the power of heat was always the same. 
And the lightnings flashed and thunders rolled and 
muttered in human ears, as now! 

Where, erst, were the men to confine the heat 
and train it to do man’s work, to propel him over 
land and sea; or to cage the lightning and bid it 
carry his messages, from continent to continent, 
under the oceans, and over the mountains ? They 
had not been born. Neither could they be born 
until God, through determinate laws, had so refined 
matter, as to make the brain or thought element of 
man sensitive enough to receive the impression of 
the power of heat and electricity—and the mode, or 
methods of applying them to so useful purposes. 
And as the laws of nature are as illimitable as God 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


is, surely we may hope, and can expect still greater 
development of man’s powers in grasping the laws 
of harmonious government, by which men will be 
brought into better harmony with each other. 

And yet when one man was so developed as to 
conceive the idea of a steam-engine, or telegraphic 
communication, or a photograph, and demonstrate 
each, how rapidly were they multiplied and utilized 
all over the world. They gradually revolutionized 
our modes of communicating with distant friends ; 
and in all manufacturing and commercial relations. 

Shall we stop here? 

We cannot if we would. This revolution must 
go on, until our government and laws are thor¬ 
oughly revolutionized, and made to protect the in¬ 
dividual in his natural rights, and administered so 
as to sustain him in the constant enjoyment of 
them. Then, and not till then, can we have peace 
on earth and good will to all men. 

Can such a constitution be framed, and laws 
enacted to protect man in his individual and social 
rights? Yes; I think so. The Creator never created 
an organization without a compatible and equitable 
law to control it. 

It is man’s duty—not only a duty, but an obli¬ 
gation for being created in the image of the Cre¬ 
ator—to find out the laws that control matter, and 
all organizations of matter. Then he becomes con¬ 
troller of matter; and in harmony with the laws 


THE GOVERNMENT OF HUMANITY. 


23 


that control the organization of matter and mind, 
he can control mind and matter. 

Where, in nature, shall we find the model for a 
constitution and laws, to govern the people of the 
world ?—This nation particularly ? 

In the organization of man himself, we will find 
the constitution and the laws that control it. Man 
is the most multiform and complicated organization 
on earth. Let us study it until we comprehend it, 
in part at least, and then imitate the Great Archi¬ 
tect, as far as we are able, to frame our constitution 
and laws in harmony with man’s being. When that 
is done the kingdom of heaven will be established 
upon earth. And the laws will not be changing 
and unstable as the wind ; but will be as perma¬ 
nent like the laws of nature ; and anarchy and con¬ 
fusion will cease and be no more. 

When I speak of the human body as the model 
for our government, constitution and laws, I speak 
of it correspondentially. The human body is made 
up of simple and complex organs, and each organ 
has its particular function and work to perform. 
Does not the very thought of them, and the func¬ 
tions and work they perform, suggest to your 
mind the necessary departments, their functions 
and work to perform in the government of the 
people ? 

To be a complete government, it should have a 
department to correspond to every functional or- 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


ganization in the human body, to perform a corres¬ 
ponding duty for the people as the organ does for 
the human body. 

Let us examine some of these organs in detail. 
The first in order is the land department, the bureau 
of the interior ; corresponding with the Stomach. 
What are its duties? It should see to securing to 
every citizen enough of the public domain to make 
his home upon, and to draw his subsistence for 
himself and family: also, to establishing schools for 
children and adults. “ Do unto thy neighbor as thou 
would have him do unto thyself,” would be fulfilled. 
These schools are the primaries to prepare the chil¬ 
dren for the higher departments of education. They 
are the mouth and stomach, which commences to 
prepare the brains that sustain the nation. 

The next important department, or organ, is the 
Heart; partially represented by the treasury de¬ 
partment. The blood is the builder-up of the 
body; it furnishes every department of the body 
with the peculiar material to sustain it in its spe¬ 
cific duties. So should the treasury department 
sustain the nation. In order to do so, the govern¬ 
ment should own the avenues of commerce, such 
as railroads, canals, etc., and the locomotive en¬ 
gines upon the railroads, and allow the people to 
place their own cars upon the roads, as it does 
boats upon the canals and rivers, and charge so 
much per mile for moving them; and in that way 


THE GOVERNMENT OF HUMANITY. 


25 


regulate commerce, and raise revenue for the pub¬ 
lic schools and colleges. The government should 
have no responsibility except to deliver the cars at 
the point designated by the owners. This should 
also be one of the departments of education. 

The next important department is the post of¬ 
fice, to correspond to the Nervous System, which 
would, properly be called a bureau under the con¬ 
trol of the department of the Head ; as it has no 
distinct organization separate from the head. It 
brings to the head all that transpires without, and 
carries the orders and communications that the 
head and legislators have to make with all parts of 
the nation. Therefore the telegraph and post-routes 
should belong to the government, and the revenue 
from it should go to support the most advanced de¬ 
partment of education. — What this department 
should do for the people, we will discuss when we 
consider the department of the Head. So also the 
observatory—the Eyes. 

The Liver, and Kidneys should come under the 
educational department of chemistry; which we 
have not in our present form of government. 
Neither have we one of the most important de¬ 
partments in the whole human system. 

The vivifying department,— the Lungs should 
be a system of colleges, for the recognition, and in¬ 
vestigation of all and every kind of phenomena that 
may present itself to the minds of men; and eluci- 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


date the same, if possible, for the benefit of the 
people, so as to free the mind from superstition and 
error. These colleges should be open to all who 
have qualified themselves by passing through the 
lower grades of schools and departments of edu¬ 
cation. 

A very important section should be the bureau 
of paternity—the organs of Reproduction. No chil¬ 
dren growing up under this Government should be 
allowed to marry until they have been instructed in 
the nature of the high and holy duties of parent¬ 
age, and the effect their acts and lives will have 
upon their offspring. Mainly through the instru¬ 
mentality of such an education can we expect a 
speedy development of harmonious governments. 

Next in order is the organization of Bones and 
the organization of Muscles and Skin. These or¬ 
ganizations are for the support, defence, and protec¬ 
tion of all the other members of the Body, which 
we have very properly and strongly represented in 
our present Government by the two secretaryships 
of the Army and Navy. 

Now comes the Head, and its contents: that 
controls and directs all the other organs in the 
structure, and yet it cannot itself act independ¬ 
ently of them. 

Do not the three divisions of the brain sug¬ 
gest the two houses of congress and the executive 
—and the ears, the judiciary ; to hear and decide all 


NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


27 


mooted questions? And at the same time they 
suggest, that the executive, legislators, and the ju¬ 
diciary, and all heads of departments and bureaus, 
should only be selected from those who have passed 
through the department of the Lungs—colleges— 
and made themselves thoroughly acquainted with 
the laws of nature and of man, and who cheerfully 
and morally submit to the control of them, as made 
manifest in their every-day life. 


V. 


Natural Individual Rights. 

Thus I have given a brief suggestion, in what 
manner the Government of the people of this na¬ 
tion (and of the world, if you please) should be con¬ 
stituted. 

Now as to the laws to be made and executed— 
what should they be ? They should be as plain 
and simple as breathing, eating, and drinking are. 

Should the Constitution of the United States 
(i) be chang-ed and amended? and if so, (2) in what 
respect. 

(i.) Yes. (2.) In respect to the changes and 
amendments, the constitution does not, in the first 
place, state clearly what the natural rights of Man 



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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


are ; which it should do. And then, the laws should 
be made to sustain them., and protect the Individual 
in the natural use of them impartially. No char¬ 
tered privileges should be granted to a firm of in¬ 
dividuals, directly or indirectly, that could not be 
enjoyed by as many as choose to accept of them. 

We have shown that all men are born free and 
equal to life, liberty and justice in the pursuit of 
happiness; and that man was created without being 
consulted, with wants which are necessities to him ; 
and that the supplies were placed in the earth, to be 
had only by man’s labor. Therefore, every man is 
entitled to as much of the earth’s surface as he can 
use, and no more. When he has placed his labor 
upon that land, no law, nor any process of law, 
should be able to take that home from him. His 
labor is his against the world, and at his disposal as 
he sees fit, unless he commits a crime against his 
fellow-men. 

Man (male and female) was created, and is, a 
social being. This law of the Individual’s nature 
as a social being, does not destroy his homestead 
right to the soil. It does not destroy the right of 
Individuals to associate together and join their 
rights to the land as homesteads, under such rules 
and regulations as the wisdom of the age may de¬ 
velop to be the best and truest mode to unfold the 
Individual up into the wisest and noblest Man¬ 
hood, and Womanhood, thereby doing away with 


NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


29 


contentious grasping, overreaching strifes, and de¬ 
vastating wars. 

There should be, and Congress should pass, a 
law prohibiting the sale of the public lands, or giv¬ 
ing it away for any other purpose than a home to 
actual settlers. And that which they have so un¬ 
righteously given away to railroads, and others 
in large quantities, they should repossess to and 
for the nation, and hold it for actual settlers, and 
assist the needy citizens to, and upon, it. By 
this means the Government would reliev-e the cities 
of their overburdened population, and place them 
in a position of self-supporting manhood, freed 
from the debasing influence of pauperism and 
strife for a mean subsistence. They would be¬ 
come a strong support to good society and the 
nation. Such a law should be passed at once, au¬ 
thorizing the Department of the Interior to move 
and send out any family that wishes to go out 
upon the public lands and open a homestead; 
and appropriate the means to do it; and then fol¬ 
low the emigrant with teachers and establish 
schools to educate them and their children. 

By these means our cities would become puri¬ 
fied and freed from pauperism, alms and soup- 
houses. Jails and penitentiaries would be turned 
into manufactories and workshops, instead of the 
abodes of wretched and disgraced human beings. 
Grant to man his Natural, Inborn Rights to as 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


much land as he can use, to draw his substance for 
self and family, without the power of any law to 
deprive him of it, and crime would very rapidly 
disappear from amongst the people. 

Depriving man of a free home on the soil IS the 
foundation error that leads to all others. We can¬ 
not be justified in making a law to punish a man 
for the violation of a Jaw, when in the first place we 
have made laws depriving him of his natural born 
rights, or, in other words, “ Inalienable Rights.” 
Thus one of the duties of the Department of the 
Interior could and should be carried out, and fur¬ 
nish aid and support to all other departments of 
the Government. 

From the chemical laboratory of the Stomach 
department, chyle ascends to the Heart—Treasury 
Department—to be converted into blood. In order 
to do that, it is directed to the department of the 
Lungs—college department—to be vivified into 
arterial blood, and sent back again to the heart, to 
be sent out, and to build up and sustain the whole 
body without partiality. This, then, suggests that 
legislators and executive officers, elected or ap¬ 
pointed to office or to positions as teachers, should 
pass through the department of colleges before 
they could be eligible to those positions. It still 
further suggests the duties of these legislators and 
officers. As the blood is sent out to build up and 
sustain every bone, muscle, tissue, ganglion, etc., in 


NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


31 


the whole human system, so should the legislators 
and teachers educate the children and students in 
their duties to themselves and the Government— 
not a partisan government but a scientific one, 
which secures each individual in the enjoyment of 
natural rights to life, liberty and justice, the ulti¬ 
mate of which is happiness. 

Let us recapitulate a little. The system of the 
heart corresponds to commerce, whose duties are to 
carry the products of labor, of earth, and the peo¬ 
ple, to the consumers. The channels through 
which it is transported—in the nation—are the 
rivers, canals and railroads, corresponding to the 
arteries, veins and ducts of the human body through 
which the blood—food—is conveyed to sustain and 
build up each and every organ of the body, even 
to the granules of the epidermis. Connected with 
this double department of the treasury and edu¬ 
cation—the heart and lungs—there should be three 
bureaus or departments of chemistry, under three 
distinct duties. First, the bureau of analytical chem¬ 
istry. Second, the bureau of synthetical chemistry, 
corresponding to the duties of the liver, glands of 
the mouth, stomach and kidneys, which would be to 
analyze everything that goes to assist agriculture, 
manufactures and commerce, and the best modes 
to build up, and to put the information in such form 
that the people could be benefited by it. Third, 
the bureau of propagation, or anthropology. The 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


duties of this bureau is one that embraces the high¬ 
est and holiest knowledge that can be given to the 
people. It is, how they can, and should improve 
their offspring. When the young arrive at the age 
of puberty, and before they marry, they should be 
fully instructed in the sacredness of that high and 
holy relation, and how their own condition of mind, 
body, estate and surroundings will affect their 
offspring. If we expect (which every American 
does) to ultimately produce a nation of the most 
grand, noble, intelligent, wise and lovable race of 
Men and Women on Earth, we must study and in¬ 
struct the People how. This bureau would come 
more particularly under the department of educa¬ 
tion. 

In considering the department of the Head—or 
congress and the executive—we find the brain di¬ 
vided into three distinct departments or sections, 
and an appendage, the medulla oblongata. The 
cerebrum is divided into two hemispheres ; who 
make all the laws to be sanctioned by the pons 
varolii, or Will power, and executed through the 
cerebellum and medulla oblongata. When we note, 
in our investigations, the functions and duties these 
organisms have to perform, the delicacy of tissues 
and fibres, and the power and force they gen¬ 
erate, and effects they produce, we may well stop 
and ask. What is the duty of Congress and the Ex¬ 
ecutives ? 


NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, 


33 


In its Members it needs the highest knowledge, 
wisdom, and justice in the nation. The work to be 
performed, is to make the conditions such that all 
people can enjoy and possess themselves of the 
means of growth—mental and physical—and happi¬ 
ness. Herein lies the highest and holiest duty man 
can perform on earth to God and his fellows—by 
establishing laws, and departments to execute the 
same, in harmony with nature’s laws. 

Let me briefly call attention to the Army and 
Navy. The duty of the navy, in addition to protect¬ 
ing commerce, should be to ascertain from all other 
nations and countries, the nature of their products, 
their qualities and uses, and bring home specimens, 
and to ascertain what of our productions could be 
exchanged for them, and give the information to 
the people, through the Secretary of the Navy. The 
Army should attend to all surveys of railroads and 
canals, the rivers, and all channels of commerce. 
The arms and instruments of war must be turned 
into the arts and implements of peace. 

In this department (the Head) we have to study 
man in his higher nature, as mind, spirit and soul, as 
manifested in the organization of the head. Dr. T. 
S. Lambert, very justly says, in his “ Systematic 
Human Physiology, Anatomy, and Hygiene,” page 
34, “ The head, composed of walls and their con¬ 
tents, may well be called the capital of the body, 
since the mind is there enthroned in the midst of its 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


legislative halls, its courts, its audience-rooms, and 
its executive chambers, fortified as in a citadel, 
with its picket-posts for observation on the very 
outworks. It is also truly the head-member of the 
body, containing within itself the hints of what is 
required of all the rest. The ear and eye suggest 
the desirability of information, the nose speaks of 
the importance of air, the mouth argues for water 
and food, etc. The USES of the HEAD, not its po¬ 
sition nor its structure, give it preeminence ; in¬ 
deed, its uses give it its position and structure.” 

How closely we should examine the contents 
and organization of the head, that we may select 
the proper persons, with varied qualifications, so 
as to make a complete organized government, qual¬ 
ified with wisdom to make laws in harmony with 
the natural rights of mind, and with power and 
will to equitably administer them. On closely ex¬ 
amining the brain we find it composed of the most 
refined and sensitive matter ; so organized that it 
can recognize the most delicate touch, and each 
convolution of the brain stands as an individual, 
with certain duties to perform in connection with 
others. In its organization we find it in communi¬ 
cation with all the other organizations, even to the 
nails on fingers and toes, and hairs on the head and 
skin, through the Nervous System. In fact, the 
nervous system is but an extension of the brain ; 
it is its roots and branches extending to the utmost 


NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


35 


bounds of the body, and we nnay say through the 
eyes, nose, and ears, to the ends of the earth, and a 
good portion of the heavens above us. 

Here we can clearly see that the telegraph sys¬ 
tem should belong to the Government. If the brain 
is so sensitive, and so refined, what ought the mind 
to be that is selected to fill so important a position 
as to declare what man’s natural rights are, and so 
organize a government with constitution and laws, 
fully protecting and educating him in the uses and 
duties of them? In the first place, they should be 
men strictly moral in its fullest sense, above party 
influence or public opinion, strictly conscientious in 
performance of duty, well educated in the laws of 
nature and mind, of sound judgment, and not pre¬ 
judiced in creeds or dogmas, but open and free 
to receive tmth in whatever form it may present 
itself. 

How intimately connected with the head is the 
Blood system is plainly seen, but its organism and 
organic power of action is separate from the head. 
Yet it is under the control of the head—the cere¬ 
bellum. It carries the material to the brain to repair 
and supply its earthly wants, as it does to all other 
parts of the body. Does it not suggest that trade 
and commerce should be regulated by Congress, 
and the channels through which trade and com¬ 
merce flow should belong to the Government, par¬ 
ticularly the railroads and canals, all under the 


36 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, 


control of the Treasury Department, and it subject 
to the head— Congress, 

As the blood flows freely to every department, 
and in sufficient quantities to build up and sustain 
every granule and organization of granules in the 
human body (corresponding to personals and asso¬ 
ciations), so should the Government, through this 
department, furnish the people with the necessary 
means to obtain all the supplies requisite to support 
life, liberty, and a progressive happiness. 

Money corresponds to the blood in the veins. 
Blood represents every kind of material in the 
whole human system; so money represents every 
kind of labor and material in the nation. So there 
should be a supply equal to the demand, as there is 
in the system of the heart, and kept in active cir¬ 
culation through the channels of agriculture, manu¬ 
factures, trade and commerce, and money should not 
be under the control of any corporation or set of men, 
other than the treasury of the whole nation, for its 
issuance and circulation. There should be enough 
of it to do away with all credit. 

Then there could not and would not be any 
more failures to distress whole communities and 
the entire nation, as it is now. The few rich may 
say, the nation is not in distress. I am willing to 
affirm, and do affirm, without fear of successful con¬ 
tradiction, that seven-eighths of the people are suffer¬ 
ing in mind from losses of property and shrinkage 





NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


37 


of values, and for the necessary comforts of life, and 
a large portion in great distress for the want of 
means to procure the necessaries to subsist upon— 
no home, no land to draw subsistence from, no em¬ 
ployment to earn it. A lamentable picture, but a 
true one—a lasting historic disgrace to our past 
and present legislators of the United States, and a 
warning forever after to the people, to be very 
careful not to solicit ambitious, selfish and ignorant 
men to represent them in the legislative halls of 
the nation. Ignorant in this, that they did not 
know that any law passed by them for the benefit 
of the few to the exclusion of the many, was a 
great injury to the many, to themselves and their 
posterity. It is a direct law against liberty and 
justice. 

I do not write this of our legislators to condemn 
and judge them guilty of a deliberate and wilful 
wrong-doing, but, that they were not wise and in¬ 
telligent enough to choose the right course. If they 
had chosen the right course, the people would not 
have been in so deplorable a condition. Our con¬ 
dition of embarrassment and distress, is an evidence 
that they were not wise. 


VI. 


Restoring Rights to the People. 

From what has been shown in the first part of 
this discussion, that all men came into being w'ith 
the same rights, it is our privilege and our duty to 
claim and demand them, through the ballot-box. 
The people must wake up from the dark night of ser¬ 
vitude to kings, priests, tyrannical rulers, dogmatic 
creeds, and unrighteous laws,—learn what their nat¬ 
ural rights are, assert them, and work for them, un¬ 
til they are secured to us and our posterity. 

The greatest effort put forth by most men, has 
been to lay up earthly riches, which cannot pass out 
of earthly conditions ; and when they place their af¬ 
fections upon it, it holds them in an earthly con¬ 
dition in the after-life, for the evident and plainly- 
to-be-understood reason, they had not laid up in 
their minds any knowledge of their spiritual nature, 
which is the only wealth they can take with them. 
Consequently they cannot have affection for that 
that they know so little about; for, “ Where your 
affections are there will ye be also," it being an 
acknowledged fact that the seat of the mind is in 
the head, and the greater amount of knowledge he 
draws and receives into his mind and wisely applies 
to moral uses, the larger and more extended lib¬ 
erty and enjoyment he controls, because his affec¬ 
tions are placed upon well-doing. 


RESTORING RIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE. 


39 


Therefore it is, and should'be the highest aim 
of Government to educate the people in the laws of 
nature, and rationally and wisely apply them to 
every-day life ; thereby they would, through these 
laws, walk directly through eternity to the Father 
and Mother of all immortals. 

It is not my intention in writing thes.e things to 
state just how the organism of the Government 
should be constituted, only to make some sugges¬ 
tions for the people of this nation to meditate upon. 
It is not the province of one man to make a gov¬ 
ernment, it requires the combined wisdom of the 
nation. 

Let creeds and dogmas be laid aside, and im¬ 
mutable principles be studied and applied in their 
proper relations, and they will soon lead the nation 
up out of the labyrinths of woe and disquietude. 
The laws once established upon these principles 
would be stable and permanent, and would not re¬ 
quire amendments and substitutions; and the only 
duties of Congress would be a watchful care over 
the executive departments, that their duties were 
promptly, faithfully and wisely performed. It may 
be—and properly—asked, how will we do away with 
the present laws in the division of the land, with¬ 
out creating anarchy and confusion? But—how 
did man get possession of them, and continue to 
hold possession ? 

I think there is a better and more peacable way 


40 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


than force or violence, in returning to and accept¬ 
ing nature’s laws, in regard to landed property and 
exclusive franchises. Monopolies can—will—yet 
learn how to render back to the people that which 
was taken from them. 

Just how it can be done, will be and must be 
discussed before the people, that they may be edu¬ 
cated in the methods of peacefully returning to the 
natural laws of government. Then they will accept, 
cheerfully and peacefully, the laws and methods 
necessary to attain the desired condition. 


VII. 

Money and Politics. 

What is money It is an instrument of writ¬ 
ing, made by the authority of the people through 
their representatives. The Congress and President 
of the United States declaring: This is one dollar, 
five, ten, twenty, one hundred, or any number of 
dollars they wish the instrument to be, making it a 
legal tender for the nation. No matter what ma¬ 
terial this instrument of writing is printed upon, it 
is the authority and will of the people that consti¬ 
tutes it money; and as money it is of equal and 



MONEY AND POLITICS. 


41 


practical use and value. There should be enough 
of it in circulation to do the entire business of the 
nation, without any individual credits, the same as 
the blood does in the human body, and the distri¬ 
bution amongst the people should be done by the 
Government the same as letters are carried, and a 
uniform charge for doing it, the same as there is 
upon letters—not that the Government should be¬ 
come the custodians of the people’s money, except 
to receive and deliver it to points desired. The 
Government, owning the railroads and telegraphs, 
could do it with much less risk than private com¬ 
panies. They would have fire and burglar-proof 
cars, and no one allowed upon them but their own 
employes. Under such a system there could not 
be a stagnation in business of a national character, 
only a temporary local one, of a very short dura¬ 
tion if at all. 

This system would preclude speculation upon 
credits, consequently no one would be hurt in case 
of failure, but the man that was reckless enough to 
enter into a speculation. All speculations are based 
on injustice, consequently work an injury to some 
one. That system should be banished from this 
nation. Love and Wisdom dictate it. 

This system does not array the poor against the 
rich, or the rich against the poor ; but on the con¬ 
trary harmonizes them, placing each in his proper 
relation, niaking each contented and happy in his 


42 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


mutual relation and dependence upon each other> 
in doing good^ and continuously bettering each oth¬ 
er’s condition. There cannot be a discount on such 
a state of relationship. Neither will there be, when 
men are wisely selfish enough to establish laws to 
sustain and maintain these principles. 

As to Political Parties,—What do the people 
owe to them ? They are not under any obligation 
or duties to them. The only duty and obligation 
the people are under, are to themselves. When 
they neglect this fact, and give allegiance to a party 
as an organized independent party, above the peo¬ 
ple’s rights, they commit a great wrong, behead 
themselves, and give the party leaders an oppor¬ 
tunity to rob them of their rights and virtually en¬ 
slave them. And to prevent this, it is the duty of 
the people, in each legislative, senatorial and con¬ 
gressional district, to canvass their districts and as¬ 
certain who recognize these principles, and avow 
them, are honest and qualified, and to select such 
men and send them to the halls of legislation, in¬ 
dependent of all parties, excepting the inalienable 
rights of the people. When we do that, we will be 
protected against all lobbyists, ring-robbers and 
political knavery. 

Voters of the United States, it is in your power, 
it is in your hands—through the ballot-box—to rec~ 
tify., purify the Government and laws, and make 
them protect each individual in his inalienable 


FINANCE AND COMMERCE. 


43 


rights. Will you help do it ? It only needs courage 
and perseverance, and it will be accomplished. Do 
not wait for your neighbor to act, but each one act 
for and from himself, and you will soon find you are 
acting in concert with the largest party that was 
ever called together in the United States; and that 
for a righteous purpose. 


VIII. 

Finance and Commerce. 

The articles which appear hereafter I wrote 
originally for the columns of the Evening Courier^ 
Daily Advertiser, and Essex County Press, of Newark, 
N. J., where they appeared a few years ago ; and, 
with slight revisions, I give them place here because 
the present condition of the times and country make 
them of even more importance and value than when 
they were first printed. 

Finance is the management of money, to meet 
obligations, and the consideration of money itself, 
what it is, what it should be, and its legitimate func¬ 
tions in the operations of commerce and trade. 

The first thing, then, is to ask and consider what 
is our present money. I reply, It is a compound of 




44 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


gold and paper, made so by enactments of Congress, 
one part of it with two qualities of value or use to 
it, the other with but one. Gold has an intrinsic 
value in itself as a fine metal, incorruptible by the 
elements, besides the value attached to it by the Act 
of Congress, making it money, to measure the quan¬ 
tity and quality of labor (here let me say that all 
things that have any commercial value is labor. I 
will have more to say about labor). The other pa¬ 
per (engraved paper) has but one quality. The en¬ 
actment of (the people’s) Congress authorizing it to 
be issued in two forms or parts, $400,000,000 to be 
legal tender for all claims, except duties on imports 
and interest on public debt, which are issued by the 
Treasury of the United States. The other part, 
$350,000,000, if I mistake not, is issued by, or to 
incorporated banks, secured by the bonds of the 
United States, and are promises to pay on demand 
in legal tender notes of the United States Treasury 
(which you will perceive is making them of a little 
inferior value to the legal tender notes). This the 
people did willingly receive as money, and it has 
admirably answered the purposes of trade and com¬ 
merce, demonstrating its powers to completely ful¬ 
fil all the uses of money if properly issued by the 
Government. (I speak of the paper money.) We 
will now consider the functions of money. Money 
is the standard by which all commodities are 
measured in value, the representation of wealth 


FINANCE AND COMMERCE. 


45 


(not wealth), by which wealth is conveyed from'one 
to another. The representative of all kinds of la¬ 
bor—through whose means one kind of labor can be 
converted into all other kinds of labor. To be ca¬ 
pable of concentration in a close and compact form, 
ready for use at all times, under all emergencies, 
and when it does that, it performs its highest mis¬ 
sion. In view, then, of the functions of money I 
have given above, what ought money to be that it 
could perform all those duties. In the first place, 
let us consider the defects in our present money, 
if it has any, which I claim it has. 

First. Gold has three great defects:—i. It is 
too bulky and heavy, causing it to move too slowly 
in its transfer from one to another, and too expen¬ 
sive in transporting it from one locality to another. 
2. It has an intrinsic value as a metal, which 
causes it to be perverted from its legitimate use as 
money, and is not recovered back into money again, 
consequently changing the quantity of money in 
the country, thereby raising or altering the stand¬ 
ard value of money. 3. There is not enough of 
it to do the business of the country. 

Secondly. The objection to the present legal 
tender notes is, it is a promise to pay, implying it 
is not a full and complete representative of labor— 
here, again, let me say, I use the word labor to 
mean everything that is bought and sold, except 
promissory notes. 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


Thirdly. The objection to the National Bank 
notes is still more serious and fatal, because they 
are a promise to pay in legal tender notes and are 
under the control of local corporations, subject to be 
withdrawn from circulation at any time by the 
whims of individuals—thereby creating panics in 
trade by the severe shrinkage of the standard meas¬ 
ures that represent labor (articles of commerce and 
traffic). 

The result is failures and great distress, severe 
and fatal losses to individuals that are not over¬ 
come in a lifetime, disturbing the whole body politic 
of the nation. Therefore the objection to the 
present monetary system of this nation is real, be¬ 
cause of its painful and distressing results to indi¬ 
viduals and the nation at large. Can we have a 
better monetary system of this country? I answer, 
Yes. One that will not be ebbing and flowing at 
the caprice of individuals or corporations. 

This brings us to consider what money should 
be and how to create it. In the first place, money 
should be a sure and steady handmaid to commerce 
and trade within the nation—our commerce with 
other nations should be strictly an interchange of 
commodities, to insure prosperous and happy results 
—never shrinking out of sight or reach, but ever 
ready to meet the ebb and flow of commerce, winter 
and summer, and should be in sufficient volume to 
meet all the demands of trade and commerce, and 


FINANCE AND COMMERCE. 


47 


confine it (trade and commerce) to a very narrow and 
short credit, and yet not cripple it in its full tidal 
flow. Our money should be confined to but one 
simple use, and made that it could not be con¬ 
verted to any other use—that use is to measure the 
value of labor or commodities. In order that it 
shall be a sure and permanent standard, there should 
be a specified amount put in circulation—sufficient 
to meet the needs of trade and commerce—that 
could not be withdrawn from circulation without 
notice and consent of the people. 

The voice of the nation, as expressed in the 
Constitution of the United States, has delegated the 
power to the Congress of the United States to create 
and regulate the monetary system of the nation. 
Therefore let Congress at once create paper dollars, 
in the same manner they did by authorizing devices 
to be stamped on gold and calling it money—so let 
them authorize paper to be printed in the highest 
art and skill science can devise, and call it money, 
regulating the bills in denominations from five cents 
to one thousand dollars, in amount equal to the debt 
of the United States, and make them legal tender 
for all claims both private and public, and abolish 
all laws making other kinds of money not in con¬ 
formity with this act. Hereby doing away with at 
least two-thirds of the use of gold in this nation, 
which reduces it to an article of commerce, none 
the less valuable to pay the balances of trade that 


48 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


may be against us with other nations. And now the 
problem comes up, how to get the money in cir¬ 
culation, and the Government receive its full value 
for it, and not disturbing its own or the commu¬ 
nity’s obligations. 

The Government is largely in debt to our own 
people, and to the people of other nations, on which 
they are paying heavy interest, and taxing the 
people to pay it, which is a heavy burden for th^ 
people to bear. A large portion of these bonds are 
due at the option of the Government, five years 
after their date, consequently a large portion would 
be and should be paid, and stop the interest and 
reduce the taxes. If the holders of the bonds are 
not willing to receive the legal tender notes in 
pay (because the bonds call for gold) then let the 
Government go into the market and buy cotton, 
grain, flour, etc., and send it (in Government ves¬ 
sels) to England and Europe, sell it for gold, and 
pay in gold all those that wish gold. Gold no 
longer being money in this nation^ what would the 
people do with it^ as two-thirds of its use would be gone 
in this country, therefore two-thirds its value. The 
use of any article is the value thereof. Therefore in 
proportion to its usefulness is its value. Hence, the 
value of the legal tender paper money of this Gov¬ 
ernment—if Congress make it the only legal tender 
money in the nation, it will give it great value, be¬ 
cause it will be the only legal standard to measure 


FIJVANCE AND COMMERCE. 


49 


the value of labor. Objection may be raised, that the 
volunie of currency is too large, that it will flood 
the country with unredeemable paper money. I 
answer^ Not so ; because every time a person receives 
it in exchange of labor (I use the word labor in its 
broad sense) redeems it., in such articles of use and 
convenience as will satisfy his wants; what more 
can he ask f The larger the volume of legal tender 
money in circulation the nearer we can reduce all 
our business transactions to cash payment, and do 
away all credit, and if there is no credit there can 
be no panics, and no overtrading or wild specidations. 
It certainly will help that “ good time coming.” 
If the love of money is the root of all evil, may 
not money be the root of all good ? I think so. 

Now, let us consider the amount that should be 
put in circulation, not subject to be withdrawn with¬ 
out consent of the people, and the reason for so 
placing it at the will of the people, whether or not 
it should be withdrawn. I will place the amount at 
nearly or quite the amount of our public debt, in 
order to stop taxation and the great expense of 
collecting it, say $2,500,000,000. 

By this means there would be a stability in our 
circulating medium that the business man could 
make his calculations with a degree of certainty not 
heretofore attainable, as the circulating medium 
will be in the hands of business men, and not sub¬ 
ject to corporations or bankers for their expansion 


50 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


or contraction. Commerce and trade will be the 
masters of their own situation, and not banks and 
stock-jobbers. In order to stop wild speculation 
Congress should pass a law to check credits, by recog¬ 
nizing the rights of every man and woman to a home, 
and not subject to be taken away from them by any 
process of law. Then, if they are credited, it should 
be at the reputation of their honor mostly. 

In order that we may now fully comprehend the 
necessity of having money, in a much larger volume 
than we ever have had it, and that it is a creation 
of art, and always has been, we will now take a 
view of commerce. In order to get a comprehen¬ 
sive view let us ask : What is its underlying foun¬ 
dation, and what it is, and for what purpose it has 
been created? The underlying foundation then of 
commerce, I answer, is man’s wants and necessities. 
Man being created (without being consulted whether 
he would be or not) with wants, these wants being 
necessities, a 7 id the supply placed in the earth, there is 
therefore a constant labor going on by Nature in the 
earth to supply these wants, and in order that man 
may be benefited by the labor of Nature, there is a 
necessity of man to reciprocate the labor of Nature 
by his own labor. Therefore his life is dependent 
up 07 i labor. Consequently labor dignifies his life. 
Man’s true aspiration is to taste and know of all the 
labors of Mother Nature and Father God. And in 
order to do so, he puts forth his own powers and 


FINANCE AND COMMERCE. 


51 


labor and gathers in the labors of nature, tastes 
and fashions it into articles of use and beauty, and 
through and by which commerce is established, 
showing, as above, all that men can enjoy is labor or 
the fruits thereof. Therefore, the necessity of an 
interchange of labor and the necessities of creating 
channels and means, by and through which labor 
can be conveyed from one location to another, also 
an article (which we call money) to represent the 
value of labor. The transportation of the labor of 
nature or art (man’s labor, I call art) from one lo¬ 
cality to another, is properly called commerce, and 
the interchange of commodities (labor) is trade or 
merchandising. From this view of commerce and 
trade, it is easily seen and comprehended, the hin¬ 
drances and obstructions in the way to check its 
steady and even flow to meet the wants of men. 
And as man is ever growing and developing into a 
higher condition, his wants and necessities increase 
in a proportional ratio. Therefore the necessity of 
laying deep and broad the channels of commerce 
and the means to conduct it. As money is in our 
view only the representative of labor, it can easily 
be seen that when man parts with his labor he must 
have something left in its place to represent that 
labor ; if there is not, then there is injustice done 
to that person, and so to the soil also. 

Does not nature punish the man who takes a 
crop from his field (or does he not rather wrong 


52 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


himself), and does not return its equivalent in inor¬ 
ganic matter ? I think it does ; but how can he if he 
has not the inorganic matter ? So with the merchant 
or trader when he receives the labor of others and 
does not give them an equivalent for that labor, he is 
not only doing the laborer a wrong, but doing a great 
wrong to himself. His note of hand is not an equiv¬ 
alent, never can be, because it is not a legal tender for 
all kinds of labor ; but when Congress issues its legal 
tender notes, it is the note of hand of every man, 
woman and child of the 7 iation, and is an agreement 
by them to take it at sight for everythmg in the shape 
of labor they have to spare. And all they ask of 
Congress is, to be sure and take and legitimately 
use or hold the full value of every dollar they issue 
to the people. Now, then, need the people be afraid 
of their own notes of hand when they hold the full 
value of those notes, and have that value in full use 
for the benefit of the people ? say, for illustration, 
an internal canal, connecting the interior with the 
oceans, or a railroad. Thereby creating a sufficient 
volume of money that when labor is taken up its 
representative can be left in its place, thereby doing 
azvay in a large degree with two great nuisances— 
individual credits and lawyers. 

The people delegated to Congress the power 
and authority to create money for convenience an.d 
benefit of the people, then why not do it when 
there is such a demand for it ; not only a demand 


PAPER MONE Y. 


53 


but an absolute necessity, the opportunity and the 
pressing wants of laborers and producers of wealth, 
call so loudly for it. The laborers and producers 
of wealth are no longer willing to credit capitalists. 
Congressmen, are you not called upon by the vows 
you took upon yourselves to fulfil the obligations 
of your office, as representatives of the people, to 
make laws to protect them in their individual rights. 
We, the people, will hold you accountable to us if 
you do not do your duty in this respect. Herein 
we have pointed out and suggested that which we 
wish to become law and a reality. 

Newark, N. J., 1874. 


IX. 

Paper Money. 

In discussing this question of money it is most 
eminently proper to understand the object and use 
of money. And when it is so made as to perform 
all the uses for which it is made, unfalteringly, with¬ 
in the nation, then it will be the very best money 
the people can make. Now to the question. What 
is the object of making money ? I answer. It is to 
measure the quantity and quality of labor and com¬ 
modities, and to convey the title of the product of 



54 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


labor and commodities, from one to another. That 
I claim to be the only and entire mission of money. 
Then the question is, Who has the right to make this 
money ? The Constitution of the United States de-r 
dares the people alone have that right through their 
representatives, the Congress of the United States; 
they alone have the right to coin money and regu-. 
late the value thereof. 

Our fathers, when framing the Constitution, 
undoubtedly used the word “ coinin its simple 
sense, which Webster defines, “ to fabricate, to make, 
to forge, etc.,” and also says that, “ gold, silver, cop¬ 
per, and other metals, can be converted into money 
by impressing on it marks, figures or characters.” 
Thus we see that gold and silver is not money 
without the authority of the people’s stamp upon it. 
The people, then, have the same power and right to 
authorize paper to be printed and engraved, and 
the value designated upon it, and it becomes money 
by the same authority that gold and silver does. It 
is a hundred times more convenient, and a thousand 
times more advantageous to the people as a nation. 
The question may be, and is often asked. How can 
Congress make paper money of any value, when 
there is no value comparatively in paper? I an¬ 
swer, By attaching uses to it. It is usefulness that 
makes anything valuable, and that only. 

As the people only have the right to make 
money (in this country, and pnly for this nation) let 




PAPER MONEY. 


55 


them agree how much is needed to do the business 
of the country, and have it printed on paper, in 
manner, the highest that art and skill can devise, 
and make it legal tender for all purposes in business, 
for Government and people. And the law authoriz¬ 
ing it to be made, so framed that the amount author¬ 
ized could not be increased or withdrawn from cir¬ 
culation without the consent of the people, through 
a vote submitted to them. Then there could not be 
a failure in our money, because it is the nation’s 
money, and cannot fail until the people cease to be 
a nation. This money will measure the value of 
gold and silver, just as readily as it will a bushel of 
wheat. If other nations are foolish enough to re¬ 
main in the shadows of the dark ages, and continue 
to worship the golden calf of the Jews, under the 
form of gold coined money, let them remain there. 
It will make the product of our gold and silver 
mines worth so much the more, by their making 
use of it to print their money upon. Then, in order 
to gratify the golden calf worshipper in this and 
other countries, receive at the mints, from all who 
wish to have their gold and silver assayed, and cast 
in any form desirable, and have the weight printed 
upon it, in grains and pennyweights, or ounces and 
pounds. These pieces would answer all the pur¬ 
poses of paying the balances of trade with other 
nations, also the bondholders, if they desire gold. 
Then if the gold was sent out of the country it 


56 


INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


would not disturb any of our business relations. 
By not using gold and silver to print our money 
upon, does not make it less valuable or available to 
pay our bonds or the balance of trade with other 
nations, if we should happen to have balances to 
pay. Now, if the people of the United States be¬ 
come wise enough to take a step in advance of 
the customs of the barbarous ages (in using a 
cumbersome commodity to measure labor. and 
convey title to it, instead of art and science), and 
print our money on paper, and make it permanent, 
uniform and always come-at-able, commerce and 
trade will spring up, and our productions will be¬ 
come so abundant and desirable that we shall be 
able to make every nation on the earth contribute 
to increase our wealth. 

The Constitution of the United States says 
there shall not be any class legislation ; then why 
shall we tolerate class legislation by Congress in 
making law^ in favor of the gold and silver miners ? 
It certainly does so when it declares so many 
grains of gold and so many grains of silver shall 
be one dollar; it certainly establishes the price 
of the products of those mines. Why not 
have Congress declare what a pound of iron or 
lead or a bushel of coal shall be worth. Just as 
proper or improper to establish the price of one as 
the other. One more reason why paper money 
made by the authority of the people is better than 


INDIVIDUAL AND PARTY RIGHTS. 


57 


gold and silver money, is, that whatever amount of 
money they possess they have that amount of in¬ 
terest (if no more) in the stability and permanency 
of the nation. 


X. 

Individual and Party Rights. 

Canvassing the duties and obligations of in¬ 
dividuals to a party, and of parties to the individu¬ 
als, and also to other party organizations, I find 
that individuals have certain inalienable rights, and 
that parties have only certain definable rights ; in 
a certain sense inalienable, which are conferred and 
transferable. Regarding the inalienable rights of 
the individual, I have asked myself the question, 
“ How much of my individual rights do I merge and 
submit to the party I may join?” 

I answer, only as much as is called for by the 
constitution and laws of such party. Therefore, in 
view of the rights of individuals to form themselves 
into a party, they have a right to say how that in¬ 
dividual shall become a member of that party, and 
what he shall surrender to that party by becoming 
a member of it, and what protection he shall receive 
from it. 



INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, 


58 


One of the inalienable rights of the individual 
which should not be surrendered, is his honest con¬ 
viction of that which is right, and his right to prop¬ 
erly express his convictions, in language not abusive 
to his fellow-men. 

Is it just, in forming and building up a party for 
the protection of individual rights, to admit to its 
structure an organized party, who have a definite 
end and aim of their own ? No ! for they will work 
corruption in the party, in order to carry their 
own ends and aims to a consummation. Therefore 
I hold the only way to build up a strong, pure, per¬ 
petual, living, growing party, is to lay its foundation 
upon the God-given rights of the individual, and 
that will attract the individual to the party, and 
thus the party will grow by individual aggregation,, 
until it shall overshadow the whole land and be a 
blessing and a protection to every citizen. 


XL 

What Caused Prosperity, and What 
Brought Ruin. 

In searching for the cause of national distress, 
I find it necessary first to ascertain the reason for 
our business prosperity. The rebellion of the. 



WHAT CAUSED PROSPERITY AND RUIN. 59 

Southern States forced the Government to become 
a very large consumer of the products of labor. 
The demands of the Government set the producers 
at work throughout the length and breadth of the 
land, and they could not labor without consuming 
the products of labor. They consequently de¬ 
manded and received of the Government the equiv¬ 
alent of their labor, which was money, exchange¬ 
able for any and all products of labor which they de¬ 
sired to have. Therefore the Government—that is, 
the chosen representatives of the people, acting for 
them—having the power, under the Constitution, 
to fabricate or coin money, authorized, by act of 
Congress, the Treasurer of the United States to 
have certain devices engraved and printed upon 
paper, stating the value of each piece of the same 
in dollars and cents, and made it a legal tender in 
the place of gold and silver. This enabled the 
government to pay the producers. Necessity 
forced this method of making money, and it has 
proved to be the best ever issued by this govern¬ 
ment. 

Now let us see if this last statement is correct. 
In order to judge of its merits fairly, examine into 
the history of the business of the country from the 
year 1854 to 1877, and note its fluctuations, with 
the cause of the same. Mr. W. L. Fawcett, in his 
Handbook of Finance, page 125, makes this state¬ 
ment : “ Upon the presumption that the New York 


6o 


INDIVID UA L RIG 7 TS. 


bank clearings, exclusive of the Stock Exchange 
business, represents nearly twenty per cent, of the 
total volume of payments in commercial transac¬ 
tions in the United States, we may estimate the in¬ 
crease of traffic in the United States by the increase 
of bank clearings in that city.” 

The amounts I give here below are taken from 
his statement on the same page, for each year end¬ 
ing September 30th, and this amount should be 
multiplied by five, in order to get the full volume 
of merchandising in the United States. In 1854 
it amounted to $5,750,455,987 ; in 1855 it decreased 
$387,542,889. From that time forward it com¬ 
menced to increase, and in 1857 amounted to 
$8,333,226,718. In the fall of that year the banks 
suspended specie payments, in consequence of which 
the business of the country fell off nearly one-half 
in one year, only amounting to $4,756,664,386, a 
difference of $3,576,562,332. Remember all these 
amounts must be multiplied by five, to obtain the 
real extent of the disaster to the producing 
classes. 

Inasmuch as all merchandise is the product of 
labor, who, but the producers of merchandise and 
the dealers in it, were the losers of this $3,576,562, 
332 ? Merchants, mechanics, agriculturists, and 
laborers—the producers and exchangers of wealth. 
This terrible loss was in consequence of the failure 
of the banks to pay gold (the humbug of the world) 


WHA T CA USED PROSPERITY AND RUIN 61 


and silver for their paper bills—their promises to do 
an impossible thing. 

Now I will show the increase of business and 
the cause of it. In 1858 some of the States legal¬ 
ized the suspension of specie payments, which re¬ 
stored confidence, and in a short time the banks 
resumed again. They resume only when their 
specie is not wanted. Immediately business revived 
and steadily increased up to the 30th of September, 
i860, when it reached the sum of $7,231,143,056. 
In 1861 the rebellion of the Southern States caused 
another suspension of the banks to pay gold and 
silver, and business again receded to $5,915,742,758. 

Dulness continued until February 25, 1862, when 
Congress legalized the suspension of specie pay¬ 
ments, and authorized the issue of legal tender 
paper money (greenbacks) which restored confi¬ 
dence, and business immediately revived. At the 
close of September 30, 1862, it reached the unpre¬ 
cedented sum of $14,867,597,848, and the next year 
it went up to $24,097,195,914* This continued up 
to 1869, when it reached the magnificent sum of 
$37,407,028,986 (five times that amount). The 
result of this grand business prosperity was sub¬ 
stantial happiness to all the producers of wealth. 
The poor man's daughter could appear in public as 
neatly and beautifully clad as the rich man’s daugh¬ 
ter. And this because her own skill and industry 
was in demand by all. 


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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. 


But alas! this gave offence to selfish rich men. 
The difference between the rich and the poor was 
not noticeable enough. They set themselves the 
task of reducing the producers of wealth from com¬ 
fort and happiness to poverty and starvation. They 
have accomplished it, and how ? I answer, by their 
old trick of procuring the passage of laws to with¬ 
draw the people’s money from circulation and de¬ 
stroy it—which was money based upon the entire 
wealth of the nation (gold and silver included), 
and issued by the authority of the people. Now 
these men propose paper money based upon gold 
only, and that under control of soulless corpora¬ 
tions, called banks, and these banks governed by 
avaricious men. 

What is the result ? No answer is needed from 
me. It is upon us, and every man, woman and 
child sees and feels it. In 1870 business had 
dropped down to $27,804,539,405, and in 1874 to 
$20,850,681,962. 


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Scrap Books, and How to Make Them. 

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Our life is a living Scrap Book. ..... 

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VI. Selecting the Articles. 

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. . . Look at every old paper, almanac, circular and scrap 

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Illustrious Messengers from Other Worlds. 

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Christ are shown with flashes of heavenly light. , i i v • , -x 

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WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER ? 

To which these, among many others, are answers : 

A rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun, 

To relish a joke and rejoice in a pun.— Goldsmith. 

WHAT IS YOUR CHIEF ATTRACTION ? 

A form so fair, that like the air 

’Tis less of earth than heaven —E. E. Pinkney. 

WHAT DO YOU DIKE BEST ? 

A sly flirtation by the light of a chandelier. 

With music to play in the pauses. 

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A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking viveich.—Shakspeare. 

WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY ? 

Never wedding, never wooing. 

Still a lovelorn heart pursuing.—GowipbeW. 

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